The clarion., 1887-10-19

from the Newspapers.
The Spanish government is buying Eng
lish horses.
Italians are engaged in making cheese
out of tomato pulp at Burlington q. -
canning house.
James S. Wethered, of San Francisco,
owns a snuff box made of the first lot Of
gold found in California in 1S4s.
Boys between the ages of 10 and 18,who
will neither work nor go to school are set
to work breaking stone at Fulton, Kan.
The boom has started a factory at
Owosso that turns out 1000, 900 back
aches a day. 1t also makes 2,4G0 snow
shovels day.
A new railroad is to be built in equa-
torial Africa, crossing the continent from
Loanda, Lower Guinea, to some Portu-
guese port in Mozambique.
Berlin Socialists employed the other
day, for the first time, women to dis
tribute their pamphlets, and over $4,000
were scattered around before the police
found out what was going on.
The house in which Payne attempted
to murder Secretary Seward at the time
of Lincoln's s assassination is now offered
for sale. 1t has long been used as the
headquarters of the commissary general.
1t has been decided by a California
court that q real estate deed from husband
TO wife where Glove and affection are
named as the consideration is not valid
unless there was actually such considera-
ton at the time of the transfer.
One of the most original specimens of
German journalism is the weekly sheet
about to appear in Lorrach, Baden, under
the title of 1.-The Mother-in-Law, every
subscriber to which, male or female, may
also be a contributor.
AT Moscow, Russia, there arrived few
| weeks ago a long train filed entirely with
grapes. They came from Tifiis, south of
| the Caucasian mountains, and were
packed in barrels with air tight covers.
The grapes are picked when half ripe,
| and are long enough on the road to be
well ripened on their arrival.
Finger bowls made of birch bark were
one of the quaint conceits of dinner
party at Boston the other night. The
guests could not discover why the pretty
things did not leak, but that was a secret
of the ingenious hostess, and she
wouldn't tell.
A Bridgeport Conn. man presented at
bank another's check for S24. The
maker of the check had only $23.3G on
| deposit, and the bank refused to cash the
| check. Then the man with the check
| deposited So cents to the other mans
credit, again presented the check, and
| got the money.
| Russia is considering the advisability
of enacting law providing that children
born in Russia of naturalized German
parents shall be regarded as Russian sub
| jects from BIRTH instead of from the time
they attain their majority, as at present,
| thus making them liable to military SER
| vice.
When, in 1865, the United States
troops occupied Macon, Ga, they turned
out to shift as they might many ap-
parently worn out horses. Some of these
war steeds recuperated fast, and were
soon drawing the plows of the con-
quered Southrons, and one of them, at
least, is living in vigorous old age in
Monroe county.
The engineers of heavy double header
| train saw child on the track near the
village of Rock Glen, N. Y. They whistled
for brakes, and when the train was almost
upon the child one of the engineers leaped
from his locomotive, and, running ahead,
caught the infant from the track. As a
reward the mother has recorded the en-
gineer's name in the family Bible.
There was an extraordinary drought In
l n ., l. n Il X
II. E. Sheuf, the Taotai Cheloo customs
and Cheloo circuit, issued proclamation
prohibiting the killing of four footed
beasts, and he, with some officials, went
to the Tien Hou temple to pray the gods
for rain. On the following day there was
a gentle rain and on the 18th a heavy
shower.
In tearing down an old farmhouse, five
miles from Monticello, Ga, workmen
found am old time slave whip between the
weather boarding and the log walls. /,
is made of leather strap two inches wide
and about a foot and half long, fastened
in a polished hickory handle some two
| feet long, with string in the rod by
which it might be attached to the wrist.
| 1t reminded one of old times.
| just III ITOnI Oh Ifle spOI WneTc 1TGSl-
| dent Cleveland stood in the room of the
board of commissioners in the city hall OF
Philadelphia when he received the public
at the recent centennial, there is thread
bare spot in the carpet. 1t was formed
by the people marching up to him, shak.
| ing hands and then turning toward the
exit. Many thousand feet shuffling in
that turn wore the carpets to threads in q
| few hours.